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Share The primary care clinic, called Legacy Early College Health Center, will be staffed by a nurse practitioner and a medical assistant, according to a news release. The clinic is near the school at 1010 Woodside Ave. in Greenville. The clinic will give teachers, students and other staff members an affordable and convenient treatment option for everyday illness and injury, from allergic reactions to sprains and strains, as well as lab testing needs, the release said. “We are grateful to the staff of Bon Secours St. Francis Health System for their hard work in expanding the services we can offer,” William Brown, founder and board chairman for Legacy Early College, said in the release. “At Legacy Early College, we strive for excellence in everything we do. Along with our vision that every scholar gets to and through college, we can now offer free, high-quality medical care to all our staff and scholars. This is a big step forward for our community.” ....
Share Bon Secours St. Francis celebrated a milestone Thursday in its emergency care construction project at St. Francis Downtown when a small group of hospital staff gathered for a topping-off ceremony. They watched construction workers place the final beam on top of the hospital’s new 45,000-square-foot emergency department. Many of the hospital’s frontline workers were given the chance to sign the beam before the ceremony, according to a news release. The construction part renovation and part new construction will relocate the emergency department and quintuple the unit’s current space. The new emergency department will have 42 rooms and accommodate 75,000 visits annually, the release said. Its design will include “fast-track” rooms to separate less acute care cases from other emergencies; holding rooms for patients waiting on lab results, behavioral health rooms for mental health emergencies; and new equipment. ....
Greenville News and Spartanburg Herald Journal Each day, The Greenville News publishes a new live-updates-style story with the latest COVID-19 news relevant to our communities in the Upstate. This is our COVID-19 news roundup for the weekend of Jan. 9. We ll update this story only through the end of the weekend. Greenville County has 761 COVID cases Sunday The state Department of Health and Environmental Control reported 3,667 new confirmed cases and 48 new deaths statewide on Sunday. The agency also reported 80 probable new cases. Of the 12,821 COVID-19 test results reported to DHEC, 28.6% were positive. Greenville County had 761 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. The most populated of the state s 46 counties, Greenville accounts for 10.2% of the state s population according to Census Bureau estimates, and it accounted for 20.75% of the confirmed and probable cases reported Sunday. ....
Lauren Petracca In 2020, as COVID-19 stormed the shores of the United States, images from the front line arrived: Nurses and doctors speaking into their cellphone cameras at shiftâs end, some near tears, others in tears, all begging us to care â or even just acknowledge â the suffering they d just witnessed. They left their homes before dawn, or after sunset, to begin 12-hour shifts spent sweating beneath layers of plastic, breathing through masks and face shields, carrying the weight of life and death into every negative-pressure room assigned to them. In there, they saw what we didn t. They discovered the unique loneliness of sitting in a hospital room with someone dying of COVID-19. A patient s family might be piped in over FaceTime or Zoom, but the gloved hand still held the dying one. ....